How To Actually Get Better In 2022 

I swear to god if I ever end up a professional musician, this man is owed royalties. Top notch videos every time. Appreciate you (will see you over in the academy soon enough my man)

I was a self-taught rock keyboard player for many years. Last year's goal: learn to read music and study jazz. This year: start gigging as a jazz piano player by fall. I'll be 66. There's a Monday jam night where I live, but I've never gone. I'll be there next Monday. Thanks for the tip and everything else! Here's to a great year!

I had already done this. My goals for this year: 1. Play at the company holiday concert in December 2. Learn at least three songs for this, and have them down rock solid, including improv: Christmas Time Is Here, Oh Christmas Tree and (super jazzy) We Wish You a Merry Christmas 3. Expand improv skills over a jazz blues 4. Work on flourishes using chord arpeggios 5. Continue to drill the open voicings I know in all keys, add new ones, grow fluent at switching them around in any given song (already made some progress on this) 6. Drill on the Barry Harris dim6 scale in at least C, F and Eb That ought to keep me busy.

My goal for this firt quarter is to learn 10 different chord progressions and be able to write songs using any of them

1. Be able to improvise lines over any key 2. Learn 5 jazz standards on piano and be able to improv over them Saxophone goals: 1. Learn 5 Charlie Parker solos and play them at tempo cleanly 2. Be able to go “outside” different keys and resolve while improvising

I want to start by learning five new chord progressions and getting them down. I know it’s pretty basic but it’s a start. Thanks for making this video.

Excellent advise especially breaking things down into small achievable goals. The trouble with focusing on a your big goal is it takes a long time to get there you start thinking you're not making progress and that can lead to not working as hard or even giving up. This is a good time to keep a practice journal so you can track those small goals. So when you feeling your not making progress you can look at your journal and see all the small goals you have achieved and that you are making progress towards the big goal.

Big goal of mine is to be able to improvise better and make my solos more connected and feel more satisfying

My goal on the piano this year is to learn how to play on all keys and be comfortable while doing that

this year is gonna be so amazing for me with guitar and piano. i’ve been getting better or practicing guitsr more getting back to how i use to play

Amazing video, just what I needed, thank you!

An immediate click for me, thank you for this✌

Best advice

This video is most uplifting....thank you Simon.

I like to divide my goals into monthly ones, so this might be a little different, February Goals: _____________________ •Record and log my practice progress in a journal and song study/Arpeggios on video •Learn atleast 3 songs this month that aren't from the Alfred's book •Practice Arpeggios •Build Rhythm+ practice with metronome more

my goals this year (i’m not the best with music vocabulary bare with me) learn the fretboard on my guitar. (for some reason the keys on a piano are easier to memorize and it’s not even my main instrument) learn at least one new scale a week (there’s so many😂) practice with other players be able to improvise on guitar and piano i basically practice the same on piano that i do guitar. learns. few songs. know how to play some scales. know chords or what makes up a chord etc. i’m just tired of feeling so limited even tho i know how it play it all. i’m trying bro write

Thanks bro. For the advice ...

My goals: Get semi-perfect pitch (1 semitone off) Play half La campanella Play Moonlight Sonate 2nd and third movement

Thanks for the reminder to make a realistic goal.... "to be able to play three songs all the way through at the drop of a hat"... see you in the Academy!

Exelent bless you🙏👍

Writing down my musical goal(s) for the year sounds like a useful way forward. Thanks for the helpful and evidence-based suggestion. So let me try writing down just one goal for the moment... - Perform (ie sing) 'The Long and Winding Road' with my music course ensemble in week 6 of this year's first trimester (which is in mid march, 2022).

This year I want to break out of my comfort zone when it comes to voicing. Sure, I know how to *find* any voicing for a chord I'm about to play, but I often default to the same ones (the "spicy" ones, if that makes sense). I'm hoping to find a balance between fancy technical playing and simplicity in my music this year, and I know as long as I stick around this channel I'll be achieving it in no time. Here's to a great year for learning and exploring sound my piano pig friends 💕

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Sors-nous une belle musique avec des belles d'accord

Practice bits that are difficult, not just the ones I am good at coz its easier. Pay attention to finer details, for example dynamics and pedal, instead of just trying to nail the basic structure of the song and forgetting everything else.

bro u give me life lol

IG I was accidentally early, but I'm having a really hard time with the left hand. chord progression voicings. impossible.

Writing down my achievement list: 1. Get better at piano 2. See Simon growing up his beard back

Hi Simon: My purpose would be exactly as you said. Namely: Learn various Standards. You said five. As a first purpose it would be fine (It could be more only if you were able to reach five). I would like to perfectly learn the melody before immersing myself in the harmony. I would like to extract from its chords everything that I am capable of. Guide tones, extensions, chord tones ... Finding the rhythm, or the rhythms, In short, "squeeze" the Standard, although I could choose another less strong word. And in the end to be able to play with the melody and improvise, which would be the last step, although not definitive, because I think that new ideas would arise about the odd arrangement in said Standard. Regarding the fact of "squeezing" I would like to clarify that this would depend on the "force" that is applied. I mean that you, for example, would apply a 10 out of 10, which would be like leaving the Standard dry. On the other hand I ... Well, since 0 is the least I would apply 1 or 2 out of 10. So I would only get a few drops of juice. (I'm always starting). Thanks for your help, Simon. A hug.

I want to be able to accompany people singing at parties and play along with them

I want to be able to play 3 jazz standards & be able to improvise over them

i want to learn music theory so i can get better at production

Happy 2022! I wanted to ask you if you knew any good music theory books, specifically for jazz/blues piano. I don't want a book of songs to learn, or a book that teaches you to play songs, I want a book that teaches how songs are made, breaks them down, and encourages you to transpose pieces or "Try It Yourself" kind of vibe. It doesn't have to be for piano, or even a specific genre, but it would be best if it was focused more on jazz/blues. Cheers!

1. I want to perform piano version of two of my songs 2. I want to perform piano cover versions of 4 songs

I want to practice for 1,5 h every weekend. I want to learn at least 5 new chords and improvise using them. I will make at least two new songs.

s.m.a.r.t. video mate (:

Thanks for the positive message!

I want to write an album's worth of music. Hopefully release something.

1. Play the piano every day for at least 20 minutes. 2. Get comfortable comping on a jazz blues in different keys (starting with C, Bb, Eb). 3. Learn some techniques and scales for improvising on a jazz blues. 4. Memorize and get really familiar with at least 4 jazz standards: Autumn Leaves, Fly Me to the Moon, How High the Moon, There Is No Greater Love). 5. Start playing each of these applying different tempos, styles, keys, voicings... Avoid playing them exactly the same way over and over again once I'm familiar with the melody and the changes. 6. Practice comping and improvising over So What in at least three different keys. 7. By the end of June: decide whether or not I'm ready to get up and play either of the aforementioned tunes at the local Tuesday night jam session. If not: find a new deadline for this decision. 8. By the end of March: if at all possible, commit to taking weekly lessons with a local jazz piano teacher.

Stick with learning the whole song before moving on to others, I seem to start one then hear something else ending up not finishing the first one.

Goal - make any lead sheet sound great. 1. Learn 3 progressions in all keys??? 2. Learn about improvisation (not sure what to write here but I’ll do the basic improv course)??? 3.apply above to 3 lead sheets??? Is this the right approach? K

I want to improvise on giant step.

12 major and 12 minor scales in sixteen notes at 120 bpm

I want to learn how to sight read through my entire Christmas music book. Learn the 2,5,1 progression in all 12 keys. Learn the 1,6,2,5 progression in all 12 keys. Learn my pentatonic scales in all 12 keys. Learn b9b13 voicings in all 12 keys Learn 5 Christmas songs by next Christmas.

I want to be able to write a song

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Si,I'm a lost cause..but there is light at the end of the tunnel..just need to find the tunnel..havea happy healthy 2022 same to all the sub's'

When is the next giveaway?, Hope i win' hope you notice me God bless!

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